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. 2014 Aug 19;2014(8):CD005098. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005098.pub3

4. Discomfort reported by the Feldmann 2007 studya.

  Discomfort during anaesthetic injection
Median (range)
Discomfort during surgery/extraction
Median (range)
Discomfort on the evening after surgery/extraction
Median (range)
Discomfort 1 week after surgery/extraction
Median (range)
Nobel‐Biocare onplant 17 (0‐93) 7 (0‐60) 33 (0‐96) 5 (0‐49)
Orthosystem implant 22 (0‐96) 13 (0‐84) 14 (0‐98) 0 (0‐7)
Extraction group (headgear and palatal arch) 13 (0‐59) 7 (0‐50) 21 (0‐88) 3 (0‐26)

a Discomfort was self reported on a visual analogue scale (VAS) from 0 to 100 with 'no discomfort' and 'worst imaginable discomfort' at the endpoints of the scale

Data were extracted from graphs